Albert Richter Ward

Brief Life History of Albert Richter

When Albert Richter Ward was born on 28 August 1881, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, John Weller Ward, was 27 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Rennick, was 18. He married Lillian Margaret Greenwell on 4 April 1900, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ogden City Legislative District 3, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 4 April 1961, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Albert Richter Ward
1881–1961
Lillian Margaret Greenwell
1881–1957
Marriage: 4 April 1900
Albert Kenneth Ward
1902–1991
Keith Devereaux Ward
1904–1985
Margaret Fredda Ward
1908–1983

Sources (29)

  • Albert R Ward, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Albert R Ward, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Albert R Ward, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

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World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1889

Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).

English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.

Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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